Featured Organization: En Foco En Foco is a non-profit organization that nurtures and supports contemporary fine art and documentary photographers of diverse cultures—primarily U.S. residents of Latino, African, and Asian heritage, and Native Peoples of the Americas and the Pacific. En Foco fulfills its mission through a broad range of programs and activities. Executive Director…
Featured Artist: Mentee 2012 Giada Crispiels In January 2013, NYFA Program Officer Felicity Hogan spoke with interdisciplinary artist Giada Crispiels, who was entering the second week of a two-month residency at the Wassaic Artist Residency in Wassaic, New York. The conversation ranged from Giada’s journey from Italy to the U.S., the benefits and challenges of that transition,…
Featured Organization: Queens Botanical Garden Queens Botanical Garden (QBG) began in 1939 at the New York World’s fair in Queens, and has gone through some of its most radical changes in recent years. In 2007 they opened their new visitor center, the greenest building in New York at the time with a “platinum” LEED rating. They…
Featured Organization: El Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Guatemala (NuMu) This month we feature El Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Guatemala (NuMu), a collaborative project between Stefan Benchoam and Jessica Kairé (Alum of the 2010 NYFA Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists) that has emerged as a result of the lack of museums in Guatemala that support, exhibit and…
Featured Organization: New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) is a community-based, non-profit organization that works to ensure that new immigrants can build social, political, and economic power in their communities and beyond. The organization was founded in 1999, when local activists came together in response to racist, anti-immigrant billboards posted by Project…
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